But is green worth paying the insecurity price? You could extend such interesting comparative paradoxes to other language comparisons as well, which I always find interesting.
https://medium.com/@jadsarmo/why-we-chose-java-for-our-high-...
Some random job ads picks,
"Senior Low Latency Java Developer" at Barclays
https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=41b8fb53bd4e24f8&tk=1hl2ggf...
"Senior Rust Developer" at James Joseph Associates
https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c2865fa5668cf524&tk=1hl2ggf...
"Software Engineer Java Rust eTrading" for an hedge fund
https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=9c75cefc6a46276c&tk=1hl2ggf...
"Because Rust" and safety, of course. I wonder if programming on Windows just sucks in general, and all these are Windows trading shops. Do you even have all the tools you need to write large programs on Windows? Valgrind, libfuzzer, etc. etc.
Now those folks have a home in WSL.